A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
Practical Effects
Real sharks. Real danger. One stuntman actually died. Fuller kept filming.
Direction
Fuller's relentless energy barely contained by budget and chaos.
Director
Samuel Fuller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A stuntman was killed by a shark during filming in Mexico. Fuller completed the movie but later said the producers ruined it in post-production.
This was Burt Reynolds' last low-budget film before 'Deliverance' made him a superstar - you can practically see him calculating his escape from grindhouse cinema.
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